HEXAGRAM 4 - Youthful Folly

Hexagrams

Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly

Be on guard for careless or rebellious attitudes characteristic of youthful inexperience. Just as a youth requires instruction, this is a good time to focus on learning your lessons from a patient teacher or life experience. Is there some circumstance in your life that you failed to comprehend, perhaps because you could not appreciate its inherent complexities? Be respectful of anything or anyone who has something to teach you right now.

In order to be prepared for challenges, let education be a part of your life. Continually develop the strong mind and will necessary to carry you through confusing times. The wise realize that experience is a powerful teacher, even though we cannot be forced to learn, even from experience. Be a good student, one who delights in learning, one who nourishes his or her expanding awareness, one who is paying attention!

Examine your attitude for factors that limit your openness. Observe how you deal with the mistakes of others. You must let people live their own lives and learn their own lessons. Offer others your wisdom or advice, but only if the other person is receptive (when in doubt, ask). Otherwise, give up trying to convince him or her that you are right, which is only exhausting and counter-productive. If people are not receptive, let them go their own way — even into difficulty or dangerous circumstances. It is the only way they can learn right now — and without learning, no one can achieve success. This does not mean that you should not care — just that taking care of someone too much can be harmful. Live and let learn.

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Changing Lines are the part of an I Ching reading that always gives the most
powerful advice about a situation because they represent the factors that are
causing things to change right now.

The odds are against casting a Changing Line (about the same as tossing 3 coins
and having all 3 come up heads). But most castings of an I Ching hexagram (i.e.
six line form) do produce one or more Changing Lines.

If there are Changing Lines, there is also a second hexagram called "Future"
which is created by reversing all the Changing Lines (those marked by a dot in
the middle) into their opposite -- yin into yang and yang into yin. The Future
hexagram is very important because it is the part of an I Ching reading that
predicts the way things are going to go if you follow the advice of the Changing
Lines.